Re: [privacy] Countdown: Bush Used Bogus Terror Threat To Scare Votes For FISA Bill

["Dennis Henderson" <hendomatic () gmail com>]

On 9/25/07, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
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> Via Crooks and Liars.
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> [snip]
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> Keith Olbermann has been tracking the Bush Administration's use of
> trumped up terror alerts to manipulate the American people for the past
> two
> years, but in this latest Nexus of Politics & Terror report on Countdown,
> it appears the president stooped to a new low by using a bogus terror
> threat that specifically targeted Capitol Hill to manipulate members of
> Congress just hours before a crucial vote on the FISA bill last August.
>
> According to Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Homeland
> Security Subcommittee on Terrorism Risk Assessment, the Bush
> administration
> knowingly used bogus intelligence to make lawmakers believe there was the
> chance of an imminent attack on the U.S. Capitol, thus frightening them
> into passing the temporary expansion of his powers to spy on Americans
> under the FISA act.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
>
> http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/25/countdown-bush-used-bogus-terror-t
> hreat-to-scare-votes-for-fisa-bill/
>
> - - ferg
>
> p.s. I think Keith Olbermann rocks. :-)



Man the trolling is tough to pass up this week...

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